STORY: IED symposium concludes with a re-commitment

to counter widespread use of explosives

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DATELINE: 27/SEPT/2017, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA

SHOT LIST:

1. Wide shot, participants present during the Counter-Improvised Explosive Devices

seminar
2. Med shot, participants present during the Counter-Improvised Explosive Devices
seminar
3. Close up, participants present during the Counter-Improvised Explosive Devices
seminar
4. Wide shot, Simon Mulongo the Deputy Special Representative of the Chairperson
of the African Union Commission for Somalia, Lt. General Osman Noor
Soubagleh, AMISOM Force Commander and Brig. Gen. Muhanga Kayanja
AMISOM Sector 1 Commander
5. Med shot, participants present during the Counter-Improvised Explosive Devices
seminar
6. Close up, Simon Mulongo the Deputy Special Representative of the Chairperson
of the African Union Commission for Somalia
7. Wide shot, participants present during the Counter-Improvised Explosive Devices
seminar
8. Med shot, participants present during the Counter-Improvised Explosive Devices
seminar
9. Close up, Simon Mulongo the Deputy Special Representative of the Chairperson
of the African Union Commission for Somalia and Lt. General Osman Noor
Soubagleh, AMISOM Force Commander
10. SOUNDBITE: SIMON MULONGO, DEPUTY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
CHAIRPERSON OF THE AFRICAN UNION COMMISSION FOR SOMALIA.
We must look at the supply side and carefully examine how these bombs are
being assembled, how these bombs are being manufactured, who is actually
manufacturing them, what type of skills, however rudimentary they are, we must
come to the grips with that. We must also deal with the chain link effectively,
with those implementing them. Those who carry, those plant and those who
trigger them. We must find a way of dealing with them and that also calls for us
to develop and enhance our intelligence collecting capabilities.

11. Wide shot, participants present during the Counter-Improvised Explosive Devices
seminar
12. Med shot, participants present during the Counter-Improvised Explosive Devices
seminar
13. Close up, participants present during the Counter-Improvised Explosive Devices
seminar
14. SOUNDBITE: SIMON MULONGO, DEPUTY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
CHAIRPERSON OF THE AFRICAN UNION COMMISSION FOR SOMALIA.
You have to take every step necessary to popularize the knowledge and skills
you have acquired in this workshop, which means we must have a critical mass of
those who have been skilled and tooled, in issues of explosives of this nature and
that means we must have a follow up mechanism, to enhance the skills transfer
from these few to the greater numbers who go lower, so that in every battalion,
we have a certain minimum number. We can only handover responsibility to a
force that has capacity to operate like we are, if not better. And so as we train
the AMISOM forces, we must in equal or perhaps higher measure train the
national forces.

15. Wide shot, Simon Mulongo the Deputy Special Representative of the Chairperson
of the African Union Commission for Somalia awards a participant with a
certificate
16. Med shot, Simon Mulongo the Deputy Special Representative of the Chairperson
of the African Union Commission for Somalia awards a participant with a
certificate
17. Close up, Simon Mulongo the Deputy Special Representative of the Chairperson
of the African Union Commission for Somalia awards a participant with a
certificate

IED symposium concludes with a re-commitment to counter widespread use of

explosives

27 September 2017, Mogadishu - A symposium to review threats posed by

Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) has ended in Mogadishu, with a call to Somalias
partners to support interventions aimed at tackling the widespread use of explosives
in Somalia.

The symposium discussed mitigating measures, among them the effective disruption
of the IED supply chain.

We must also deal with the chain link effectively, with those implementing them.
Those who carry, those who plant and those who trigger them, Mr. Simon
Mulongo, the Deputy Special Representative of the African Union Commission
Chairperson (DSRCC), for Somalia challenged participants, during the official closing
of the symposium in Mogadishu on Wednesday.
The DSRCC also stressed the need for effective development and enhancement of
intelligence collecting capabilities by the AU and Somali security forces, as an
effective counter-measure to the IED problem.

We can only handover responsibility to a force (SNA) that has capacity to operate
like we are, if not better. And so, as we train the AMISOM forces, we must in equal
or perhaps higher measure train the national forces, he noted.

Representatives from the AU Mission in Somalia, the Somali security forces, the UN
and the British forces attended the three-day symposium, which discussed the
increasing threats and dangers posed by IEDs on civilians and security forces.

You have to take every step necessary to popularize the knowledge and skills you
have acquired in this workshop, which means we must have a critical mass of those
who have been skilled and tooled, in issues of explosives of this nature and that
means we must have a follow up mechanism, to enhance the skills transfer from
these few to the greater numbers who go lower, so that in every battalion, we have
a certain minimum number, Mr. Mulongo emphasized.

Recommendations from the symposium will be sent to the African Unions Peace
Support Operations Division for action.

END